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Glucosamine supplements may reduce risk of death just as much as regular exercise
Study Finds.org ^ | 12/2/2020 | John Anderer

Posted on 12/02/2020 3:45:43 PM PST by mac_truck

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Glucosamine, an amino sugar and natural compound found in cartilage, is often used as a dietary supplement. Now, an eye-catching new study from West Virginia University is reporting glucosamine supplements may actually reduce one’s risk of cardiovascular-related death — and death in general for that matter — just as much as a regular exercise routine.

Considering how essential regular exercise is, these findings are sure to raise an eyebrow or two.

“Does this mean that if you get off work at five o’clock one day, you should just skip the gym, take a glucosamine pill and go home instead?” says study leader Dana King, professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine, in a release. “That’s not what we suggest. Keep exercising, but the thought that taking a pill would also be beneficial is intriguing.”

King and her co-authors took data on 16,686 people (at least 40 years old) originally collected by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999-2010. They then combined those statistics with mortality figures from 2015.

(Excerpt) Read more at studyfinds.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: glucosamine; health
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1 posted on 12/02/2020 3:45:43 PM PST by mac_truck
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From the article: Even after accounting for various other factors (age, sex, smoking habits, exercise levels), the research team’s analysis showed that taking glucosamine/chondroitin on a daily basis for at least a full year is linked to a 39 percent drop in all-cause mortality. Regarding cardiovascular-related fatalities specifically, a daily glucosamine supplement is linked to a 65 percent death risk reduction.
2 posted on 12/02/2020 3:47:28 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Hate to break it to the conductors of the study.....but death is a 100% certainty.


3 posted on 12/02/2020 3:48:23 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: mac_truck

I give them to my dog. Found them at Costco. They seem to help. She is almost 14 and can still bound up the steps except for late at night. then it is a slow climb


4 posted on 12/02/2020 3:50:02 PM PST by RummyChick (I blame Kushner.)
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To: mac_truck

I take Glucosamine w/MSM daily and I haven’t died yet...


5 posted on 12/02/2020 3:51:41 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: mac_truck

How did they narrow this down to glucosamine alone, because in other parts of this story they say people were taking glucosammine/chondroitin?

Does it work if I take it with a glass of wine or a piece of chocolate cake? ;-)


6 posted on 12/02/2020 3:51:56 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: Yo-Yo

That’s very encouraging! :-)


7 posted on 12/02/2020 3:52:29 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: Yo-Yo

I, too, have been taking G/C+MSM for years and am still drawing breath.


8 posted on 12/02/2020 3:54:50 PM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Red wine and chocolate cake...nothing better!

As for the glucosamine, who knows? It probably doesn’t harm you, I used to give it to my horse (who did live to be 35, which is ancient for a horse), it doesn’t taste good or even like anything...so therefore you have to have the wine and cake to wash it down!


9 posted on 12/02/2020 3:54:52 PM PST by livius
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To: mac_truck

I’m going to take a double dose and in 40 years put myself up for adoption.


10 posted on 12/02/2020 3:55:49 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: mac_truck

Got a couple of caps sitting here on the desk.
Thanks for reminding me I should take one!


11 posted on 12/02/2020 3:58:26 PM PST by kanawa ((Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel)))
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To: RummyChick

“I give them to my dog. Found them at Costco.”

Costco shareholder thank you.


12 posted on 12/02/2020 3:59:50 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: mac_truck
This is reminiscent of the old “Dead Doctors Don't Lie “ pitch from the 1990s. Pre internet, passed around on cassettes.

Fun listening, IIRC he suggested collecting the bones from behind KFC, grinding them for glucosamine...
Sold mass volumes of vitamins.

13 posted on 12/02/2020 4:00:24 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: mac_truck

I would think people who take glucosamine would be inclined to take other supplements also. How would they determine which ones are doing the good?


14 posted on 12/02/2020 4:00:58 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Democrats are the slumlords of American politics )
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To: DannyTN

I like your plan! :)


15 posted on 12/02/2020 4:04:45 PM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Yo-Yo

The MainStream Media is a sure killer. It causes extreme hypertension.


16 posted on 12/02/2020 4:14:00 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: Yo-Yo

I’m still here too with my daily dose.


17 posted on 12/02/2020 4:18:58 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: ealgeone

Heh. Figure that out by yourself, didja??

Seriously, though; what’s not worthwhile about death put off ten or twenty years?


18 posted on 12/02/2020 4:32:25 PM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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“Seriously, though; what’s not worthwhile about death put off ten or twenty years?”

Just exercise. Costs less with proven benefits


19 posted on 12/02/2020 4:37:51 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: RummyChick

Get mine there too, been taking them for several years. Like seeing this!

I also already take most of the stuff in the EVMS Covid prophylactic protocol.


20 posted on 12/02/2020 4:42:58 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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